# Contracts Manager, Research & Operations

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: New York City, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $170,000-$220,000 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

Anthropic is seeking a Contracts Manager to support commercial and technology transactions. The successful candidate will review, draft, and negotiate commercial and procurement contracts to support cutting-edge AI systems.

## Responsibilities

- Draft, analyze, negotiate, and complete complex commercial transactions with vendors, including SaaS and IP licensing agreements

- Propose and develop scalable solutions to improve contracting efficiency

- Collaborate with business units and legal team members to streamline contract management processes, identify potential risks, and drive continuous improvement in contract handling efficiency

- Collaborate with Research, Product, Finance, Security, Business Operations, and Procurement teams to achieve key business objectives and deliver strategic, business-minded, and solutions-focused counsel

- As a relatively small legal team supporting big projects, each legal team member practices across multiple areas

## Minimum Qualifications

- Experience operating in a fast-paced technology startup with shifting priorities and schedules

- Initiative and autonomy in managing complex contractual matters, effectively prioritizing competing deadlines

- Understanding of what's important in a contract, the organization's mission, and when to be flexible or draw a hard line

- Excitement to grow with an organization and help shape the culture of the commercial function

- Preference for straightforward, concise explanations over legalese and overwrought drafting

- Ability to thrive as a member of cross-functional teams building frontier technologies

- Comfort operating outside areas of expertise and in uncharted legal territory

- 'Doer' mentality, willing to roll up sleeves to get things done as a team player

## Preferred Qualifications

- 7+ years of related contract management experience, with at least 3 years supporting technology transactions, vendor engagements, or partnerships

- Proven ability to collaborate across various organizational levels and functions to facilitate efficient contracting processes and execution

- Substantive knowledge of software agreements, reseller agreements, services agreements, strategic partnerships, and general contract terms

- Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical, collaboration, and interpersonal skills

- Motivated self-starter able to multitask and juggle multiple priorities in a dynamic environment

- Authentic integrity and a deep understanding of the importance of ethics in business

The annual compensation range for this role is $170,000-$220,000 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- contract management
- commercial transactions
- procurement contracts
- SaaS agreements
- IP licensing agreements

### Nice to have
- software agreements
- reseller agreements
- services agreements
- strategic partnerships

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